Keep jury trials for fraud, says report

Share via

The collapse of the £25 million Jubilee Line fraud trial should not be used as a reason for scrapping jury trials in complex fraud cases, an official report concluded today.

Stephen Wooler, Chief Inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS,) said the circumstances of the case - which was abandoned in March last year after 21 months of hearings - were so unusual that the CPS could not prove either way whether juries should be dropped in similar cases.

The Government has already passed legislation allowing complex fraud trials to be heard by a judge sitting without a jury, but introducing the